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不均匀河外磁场和cosmic ray谱中的第二个膝关节

Inhomogeneous extragalactic magnetic fields and the second knee in the cosmic ray spectrum

Kumiko Kotera, Martin Lemoine

摘要:

各种实验表明,在宇宙射线谱中,在能量E=3.10^{17} eV附近存在第二个拐点。这个特征可能是银河系成分结束和河外成分出现的标志,只要后者在低能量时切断。最近的分析计算表明,这种截止可能是河外磁场存在的结果:低能质子在河外磁场上扩散,在给定的时间内无法到达观测者。利用一种新的半解析传播程序,研究了非均匀磁场对磁层的影响。结果表明,在体平均磁场一定的情况下<B>,低能截止的幅度主要由大尺度结构分布的空洞中的磁场强度控制。

英文摘要:

Various experiments indicate the existence of a second knee around energy E=3.10^{17} eV in the cosmic ray spectrum. This feature could be the signature of the end of the galactic component and of the emergence of the extragalactic one, provided that the latter cuts off at low energies. Recent analytical calculations have shown that this cut-off could be a consequence of the existence of extragalactic magnetic fields: low energy protons diffuse on extragalactic magnetic fields and cannot reach the observer within a given time. We study the influence of inhomogeneous magnetic fields on the magnetic horizon, using a new semi-analytical propagation code. Our results indicate that, at a fixed value of the volume averaged magnetic field <B>, the amplitude of the low energy cut-off is mainly controled by the strength of magnetic fields in the voids of the large scale structure distribution.

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